What's the best cycling book you've read

[Beeankey]

Looking for a few to take on holiday.

Looking for some interesting ones. The likes of Nicolas Roches is hardly going to get me excited.

Is David Millars worth a read?

 

[AndyRM]

Yes. It's brilliant.

I'm currently reading 'Put Me Back on my Bike - In Search of Tom Simpson' which is so far excellent.

 

[AndyRM]

It's All About the Bike: In Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is also good, but short.

 

[Fnaar]

Not the best, but a nice gentle read: by Harry Enfield's dad

 

[mickle]

Just Ride by Grant Petersen

 

[AndyRM]

Just finished Its Not About The Bike.

I love it for its honesty and the author is someone who I feel I can really trust.

I got exactly the same impression. A genuine sounding chap who truly loves cycling. Can't go wrong with that!

 

[Haitch]

Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, more musings on life than cycling stories but an enjoyable read.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

To all the above add French Revolutions Tim Moore

 

[Globalti]

Matt Seaton's The Escape Artist is excellent but sadly will only take you a couple of hours to read,

 

[laurence]

David Millar - riding through the dark. brilliant book and Millar is a very good writer
Cycling Anthologies vol 1 & 2 are very good. available via Prendas (and other places)

 

[Boris Bajic]

This is a very serious matter.

Unless you are the stoker on a tandem, you should not read a book while cycling.

There can be no justification for doing so.

Please stop this thread at once.

Madness! Absolute madness!

 

[mustang1]

John Metcalfe's Dividing the Great.

I also liked Grant Peterson's Just Ride.

 

[swee'pea99]

I enjoyed 'You've gone too far this time, sir" - a travel book by a guy who decided to cycle from his school in Kingston to one in the middle of India. If you have a Kindle, it's free.

 

[topcat1]

The cycle chat bible Barring Mechanicals

 

[Tim Hall]

This is a very serious matter.

Unless you are the stoker on a tandem, you should not read a book while cycling.

There can be no justification for doing so.

Please stop this thread at once.

Madness! Absolute madness!

Funny you should say that. Some years ago, The Girl was stoking the Pino (funny half recumbent tandem thing) whilst Mrs. Hall was nominally in charge of it. The Girl is an avid reader and had her head in a book. Her pedaling effort was minimal, more or less just keeping the pedals turning over to stop the freewheel clicking. Mrs. Hall impounded her book at the lunchtime stop resulting in a vast increase in bicycle speed.

Back to the OP. Barring Mechanicals, the tale of one man's battle against uneven odds, spurred on by a bunch of cable ties. Obv. (Where is Andy Allsop these days?)